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How Identity Shapes Science
New analysis finds that research by Black, Latinx and Asian scientists is often clustered in certain fields and underrepresented in terms of citation counts. This lack of diversity hurts everyone, the authors say.
UC Irvine Fires Scholar for Refusing Vaccine
The University of California, Irvine, has fired a scholar for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The scholar was Aaron...
Amazon Gift Signals Confidence in Community Colleges
The company is giving $3 million to kick-start a computer science bachelor’s degree program at community and technical colleges throughout Washington State.
Tenure Awarded… at Hofstra, Wabash
Hofstra University Kira Adaricheva, mathematics Emily Barkley-Levenson, psychology Joseph Bartolotta, writing studies and rhetoric Benjamin Burrington, physics and astronomy Russell...
Opinion
Trustees Cannot Punt on College Football
Top administrators are certainly instrumental, but ultimately, coaches’ compensation and other key financial decisions rest with a university’s board, writes Richard Chait.
Oklahoma Bill Would Ban Teaching Facts About Slavery
Proposed legislation in Oklahoma would withhold up to 10 percent of state funding from public institutions that teach components of...
Academic Minute: Universal Design for Learning in Virtual Formats
Today on the Academic Minute: Melissa Wells, assistant professor in the department of education studies at SUNY Empire State College...
Southwestern Offers Free Campus Space to Kumeyaay Nation
Southwestern College, a community college in California, will allow members of the Kumeyaay Nation, a group of local Indigenous tribes...